a tortoise has been reunited with his owner after spending nearly a year on the run and even finding a new home - at the age of 109 .
the couple , who could just about make out the word ` stokes ' written in white paint on his shell , felt they needed to find out who tony belonged to .
with nothing else to go on , they decided to call every stokes in kent listed in the phonebook .
but the people who found him could read stokes but they could n't make out the number .